FAQ

What is psilocybin mushrooms/  "Los Ninos Santos?"

Psilocybin is a compound found in psychedelic fungi, meaning the mushrooms are mind altering or reality bending. Psilocybe is the genus name of more than 180 magic shroom species, some of which have multiple strains. Psilocin is another compound found in magic mushrooms, but in smaller amounts than psilocybin. Additionally, after ingesting magic mushrooms, if that’s your dosing method, your body converts psilocybin into psilocin.

What does psilocybin mushrooms do? 

Psychedelics change our awareness and perception of our immediate environment and ourselves, and they impact our thoughts and feelings. Psilocin and other magic mushroom compounds bind to serotonin receptors, especially in the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that regulates mood and emotions. For this reason, magic mushrooms can alter thoughts, feelings, and more. 

What are the benefits of working with psilocybin?

The benefits of working with psilocybin are undeniable. Research from Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, NYU, and other universities supports long-established anecdotal evidence that psilocybin can help:

● improve your emotional state

● strengthen your connection with nature and other beings

● reduce alcohol and nicotine dependency

● alleviate depression, anxiety, cluster headaches, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anorexia

● increase levels of creative thinking, empathy, and well-being

● generate a childlike sense of awe

● increase the rate of neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons), which allows your brain to heal

● increases neuroplasticity, which makes the mind more flexible and allows you to more easily form new mindsets and habits

When you work with psilocybin, you may at times feel more present, connected, resilient, grounded, open, optimistic, grateful, healthy, and happy. 

You may also find that you are able to feel more compassion and love for yourself and others.

You may experience an increase in energy levels and mental clarity. With an expanded sense of empathy and compassion, you may be able to process difficult emotions with more wisdom and maturity. Your relationships, habits, memory, and vocabulary may improve. Your nervous system and hormones may feel more balanced. Psilocybin can connect you with your innate embodied intelligence and free you from rigid thought patterns and limiting beliefs.

Simultaneously, you may experience less stress, brain fog, and negative self-talk. Your judgments about oneself and others may lose some of their power. You may experience a reduction in physical pain. But, how is all this possible from something as innocuous as a little fungi?

Mushrooms are highly intelligent. They sprout from a vast underground mycelial network, which has been referred to as the Wood Wide Web as it provides communication and connection between individuals (e.g., trees) and the entire ecosystem.

Similarly, when ingested, psilocybin mushrooms increase your awareness of the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. You can connect to the oneness of everything: thoughts, emotions and memories; your family and communities; nature. This awakening or remembering can lead to new insights and a more inclusive worldview.

And, just as mycelium decomposes dead organisms and recycles them into new lifeforms, so do psilocybin mushrooms break down tensions, traumas, and toxicities in your system, transmuting them into positive emotions and states of mind.

At times, you may experience the mushrooms as teachers, therapists, counselors, advisors, leaders, guides, parents, children, aliens and a host of other energies. The mushrooms can act as a mirror and help you connect with these aspects of yourself.

What’s it like to use magic mushrooms? 

Magic mushrooms at larger doses of 1G+ may elicit feelings of connectedness with others and nature, reduce awareness of the self or ego, and enhance well-being—just to name a few effects. You may also experience more vivid memories. Magic mushrooms can distort your senses and impact your perception of space and time. Many factors are at play when it comes to what you might feel.

Is psilocybin safe? 

Psilocybin is one of the least toxic of recreational drugs. It’s on par with cannabis. However, many other mushrooms out there are extremely toxic and can kill you.

Can I overdose on psilocybin? 

The term “overdose” can get coupled with death because many people have died from overdosing on substances like opioids. Psilocybin can sometimes have unpleasant effects in the form of nausea or a challenging trip. But magic mushrooms aren’t generally life-threatening. 

Can I become addicted to psilocybin? 

Psilocybin is not considered a physically addictive drug. Instead, it is being studied to potentially treat addiction.  

Does psilocybin show up on a drug test? 

Psilocybin and psilocin end up in your pee. But not for long. Within 24 hours, they’re undetectable. Most magic mushroom compounds are actually excreted within a few hours of consumption. Even if you were drug tested within a detectable window, most typical drug tests don’t screen for psilocybin. The ones that do are special and expensive.